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After AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue and hacked other companies, the Trump administration's response is now under the lens of bipartisan scrutiny.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and ex-MK Gilad Erdan launched a right-wing alternative aimed at voters who support Netanyahu's coalition but oppose Haredi draft exemptions and seek a 'national' probe into the failures that led to the Oct. 7 attack

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday arrived in Jeddah on a visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Binance-affiliated entities filed a Hong Kong petition against RedotPay's founders, alleging the payment startup used its partnership with Binance to divert more than 470,000 Binance Card customers into its own competing stablecoin card. As Bloomberg News reported, Binance claims $472.8 million in losses, built on an estimated $925 lifetime value per customer, and says RedotPay […] The post How a crypto startup quietly siphoned 470,000 Binance users to build a $4 billion card empire appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The new law creates a licensed, central bank-supervised market for trading digital assets, yet crypto remains barred from everyday payments.

The first update is scheduled for August 7, with the second set for the following day.

Deși președintele Nicușor Dan anunță existența unui acord politic pentru adoptarea monedei euro și promite o foaie de parcurs care să pregătească aderarea, realitatea economică este mult mai complicată.

Israeli settlers attacked a small Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, injuring people, destroying homes and smashing their power source, the military and residents said on Thursday, in the latest in a spate of violent confrontations. AFP journalists in remote Khirbet al-Tuba saw buildings blackened by fire and smoke, the interiors of three homes completely burned and graffiti in Hebrew spray-painted on remaining structures. The dozen solar panels the isolated southern community relies on for power had also been smashed to render them unusable. The Israeli military said it “strongly condemned” the raid and that it had responded after “homes being set on fire and Palestinians being attacked in the area by Israeli civilians” late on Wednesday. People check damaged solar panels, which Palestinians say were damaged by Israeli settlers, in Tuba in Masafer Yatta, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 6, 2026. — Reuters “Several Palestinians were injured, among them a girl and a woman. Several stru...

LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Thursday announced peaceful sit-ins against the petroleum levy at 510 locations across the country on Friday, warning that the protests would transform into a movement to overthrow the government if authorities attempted to stop them. Addressing a protest rally by the JI Women’s Wing on Wahdat Road in Lahore against rising petroleum prices and inflation, Rehman said major roads linking districts across Pakistan would be blocked from 4pm onwards; however, ambulances would be allowed to pass without interruption. “If obstacles are created or our peaceful protest against the petroleum levy is blocked, this campaign will turn into an anti-government movement,” he said, demanding that the price of petrol be reduced to Rs225 per litre. JI Lahore Emir Advocate Ziauddin Ansari, Women’s Wing President Dr Humaira Tariq, Samiha Raheel Qazi, Samina Saeed and Uzma Imran also addressed the gathering. Rehman urged the government to accept the public’s demand...

During a Russian missile and drone attack in the Black Sea, the German dry cargo ship Emil sustained significant damage, while in Ukraine, a Puma warehouse was damaged and the central warehouse of the German automotive chemicals manufacturer Liqui Moly was destroyed.

Strong AI-driven earnings from Amazon and Microsoft boost investor confidence, pushing major US stock indices closer to record highs.

Strong AI-driven earnings from Amazon and Microsoft boost investor confidence, pushing major US stock indices closer to record highs.

The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.

В городе Данидин на Южном острове Новой Зеландии произошел необычный инцидент. Местная политик оказалась в курьезной ситуации, поскольку подключилась к онлайн-встрече прямо из ванной комнаты.

A week-long streak of inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs has coincided with the Coldcard wallet exploit, fueling debate over whether some investors are shifting away from self-custody. Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody. According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB), ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) as well as Defiance Daily Target 2X Long MSTR ETF (MSBT) have recorded inflows every trading day since the weekend exploit, totaling roughly $620 million. The cumulative figure is consistent with Cointelegraph’s recent reporting on the ETF inflow streak. The Coldcard exploit drained more than $116 million worth of Bitcoin from over 5,200 wallet addresses, according to blo...

Nina Broers heeft met haar Nederlandse film Waar is mijn libido? een Student Academy Award gewonnen. De 26-jarige filmmaker mag de prestigieuze prijs volgende maand in ontvangst nemen tijdens de uitreiking in Toronto. "Het moet allemaal nog even bezinken", vertelt ze aan NU.nl.

The government on Thursday reduced the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs3.19 and Rs1.50 per litre, respectively. Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs329.82 per litre, while HSD will cost Rs382.36 per litre. The government continues to levy Rs110 per litre in taxes and duties on petrol and Rs96 per litre on HSD. The Petroleum Division’s notification said the new prices would be applicable for August 7 (Friday). The diesel price has come down from a peak of Rs520.35 recorded on April 3. Its price had started rising from Rs281 per litre after the US-Iran war broke out on February 28. The petrol price had peaked at Rs458.41 on April 3 after beginning its upward trajectory from Rs266 in the first week of March. Earlier, Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik announced that fuel prices would now be fixed on a daily basis due to fluctuations in international market prices following renewed hostilities between Iran and the US. The government had been announcing weekly revisions to fuel pric...

Forțele Aeriene ale României, Bulgariei și Spaniei au semnat un acord tehnic trilateral pentru desfășurarea de operațiuni transfrontaliere de protejare a spațiului aerian al NATO.

On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.